A Sampling of Clips for October 3 ^rd, 2008

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Looking at Magnetic Fields in a Distant Galaxy
NPR, Science Friday, Oct. 3 – UCSD physicist Arthur Wolfe talks about a project that used a radio telescope to peer millions of years back in time and make observations about the magnetic field in a distant proto-galaxy. More

Chairs, Flutes and Other Items With Nickel
ABC News, Oct. 3 -- The unexpected allergic reactions to nickel don't stop at cell phones. "We're starting to see people who have rashes in other places because of the unexpected content of nickel in those items," said Dr. Sharon Jacob, assistant professor of medicine and pediatrics at UCSD. More

VP Debate: Economy, Iraq Take Center Stage in St. Louis
USA Today, Oct. 3 -- Vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden sparred Thursday about economic policy, pursuit of the war in Iraq and the records of their party nominees in an eagerly anticipated debate that included humor, emotion and sharp elbows. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More

The Biology of Voting
Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 3 -- In September, two political scientists published a paper in Science, the top scientific journal in the United States describing the first potential link between people's political leanings and their basic physiology. That finding dovetails with work by other researchers, who recently reported finding connections between people's voting patterns and their specific genes. (Quotes UCSD political scientist James Fowler) More

The Ig Nobel Prize Winners
Boston Globe, Oct. 3 -- Dorian Raymer of the Ocean Observatories Initiative at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Douglas Smith of UCSD, won the Ig Nobel Prize for proving mathematically that heaps of string or hair or almost anything else will inevitably tangle themselves up in knots. More

Interview: Brad DeLong, Cal Economics Professor
Contra Costa Times, Oct. 3 -- Mercury News reporter Elise Ackerman asked Brad DeLong — an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former deputy assistant secretary in the Treasury Department under President Clinton — what the bailout proposal means for Main Street. Is there light at the end of the tunnel? How bad can it get? And what is likely to happen to the housing market? (Mentions UCSD economist James Hamilton) More

UCSD Gets Hefty Science Grant
CW6, Oct. 2 -- The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center at UCSD was awarded a $12 million grant from the National Science Foundation, it was announced Thursday. More

Coolidge Trust Grants Big Endowment to UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 3 -- UCSD has received an endowment of more than $500,000 to support learning opportunities for seniors. The Marcella Coolidge Trust awarded the money to the university extension's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, a continuing education program aimed at people over 50. More

Tired of Being Overshadowed, SDSU Pushes to Gain Entrepreneurial Edge
Voice of San Diego, Oct. 3 -- While the research at SDSUisn't as complex as some that takes place at research havens such as UCSD, it is likely to more quickly lead to practical new treatments, vaccines or drugs, said Roberta Gottlieb, director of the two-year-old research facility dedicated to studying the emerging links between heart disease and infectious disease. More

Report Validates UCSD's Importance in Local Economy
Del Mar Times, Oct. 2 -- UCSD and city officials last week touted the results of a recent report showing that the school annually contributes $7.2 billion in overall spending and personal income to the California economy in addition to generating 39,000 jobs. More

Gorder 5K Reaches Milestone
The San Diego Daily Transcript, Oct. 2 -- The Gorder 5K Melanoma Walk is on Oct. 11 and commemorates Bruce Gorder, who died at the age of 37 from malignant melanoma. His father, Charles F. Gorder Sr., helped organize the first walk 15 years ago -- one year after Bruce's death -- to support melanoma research at UCSD. This year, the Gorder family will celebrate reaching the annual event's $1 million cumulative fundraising mark. More

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